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How to make an oto.ini BASIC TUTORIAL

Before you begin reading it's very important that you know the rules about making an UTAUloid. I'll list them below, and I found them in this guide to make your own UTAUloid which you can download here.

"You may enjoy yourself, but do not break the law or violate somebody else's rights.All "UTAU" users must follow these rules!!•Don't create voice bank from a real singer's voice without permission.•Don't create voice bank from a real actor/actress's voice without permission.•Don't create voice bank from a real voice actor/actress's voice without permission.•Don't create voice bank from the output of “Vocaloid” products, which explicitly forbid such a usage.•Don't create voice bank from the output of other voice synthesizers without permission.Breaking the rules will result in the accusation against you, and may even Mr. 飴屋／菖蒲 (Ameya/Ayame) as an accomplice.Such a situation will terminate the free "UTAU" world and should be avoided definitely. "

I'm assuming you all have the English patch for UTAU, if you don't go to the downloads section and download it. Also there's a new version for UTAU 2.61 here. (English patch update can be found on mianaito's youtube channel. If you have doubts on how to use it please leave a comment here and I'll help you how I can.)

Well in UTAU go to Tools > Voicebank Settings (or ctrl G) and you get this window. Configure everything by following the explanation below and using your own judgement and then click OK and the oto.ini file is AUTOMATICALLY created in your selected voicebank.

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Alias is the alternative name you will give your samples. If you saved your wav files as romaji, type the hiragana as the alias. If you saved your wav files as hiragana, type the romaji as the alias.

Offset is the parameter of the blue highlight thing from the left. Basically you can cover any blank space on your wav file or any weird sound from your recording with this and it wont be heard when you make your UTAU sing.

Consonant is the parameter of the pink highlight thing. Anything you cover with this will not be altered when the note is stretched in UTAU.

Cuttoff is the parameter of the blue highlight from the right. Just cover any blank space after your recording with this or anything that is not consistent with the rest of your recording at the end.

Preutter is the parameter of the red line. Put this at the end of the consonant in your recording. When you select the red line in the editor you will notice it says "top of note" this is basically how soon the note will begin to sound when you make your UTAUloid sing. This parameter shortens the lenght of the preceding note.

Overlap is the parameter of the green line. This parameter defines the length of utterance extention of the *preceding* note in milliseconds. Sometimes this parameter isn't needed at all but when the consonant is too long I usually put this at the middle of the consonant in the recording. With this you are assigning how soon the note with this sample will overlap with the previous note.

On that window, select the sample you are going to configure then click on "Launch editor". You should see a window with your wav file. Then you can move around some parameters that will write in the numbers of the oto.ini. Basically it should look something like this.

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In summary the blue covers all that you don't want to be heard, or you can use it to cut off empty space. The pink covers the area that you don't want to be manipulated when you stretch a note so cover the consonant and part of the vowel. The green line determines when the note will overlap with the previous note (it shortens the previous note too) and the red line says how much it will get ahead. Just place the green bar in the middle of the consonant and the red bar at the end of the consonant.

Also the highlighter like things are hidden drag the red and green lines first then you'll be able to drag the pink thing and after you drag the pink you can drag the blue. You can also drag the pink and blue before dragging the green and red lines by clicking on the leftmost corner where there is no green or red line visible. Also if you drag from the right, you immediately get the blue highlight thing.

Oh something else I was told (I believe it was Nami who figured this out) On the editor window (where you drag everything around) there is a button with a "P" on it. If you click on that it'll let you listen to the sound once configured.

Configuring the oto.ini for a VCV voicebank

It took me a while to finally understand how to configure the oto.ini of a VCV voicebank but thanks to mianaito's help I finally understand how.

Here is what he basically told me "Essence of VCV configuration is: 1)overlap=end of 1st Vowel 2)preutter=end of Consonant. Consonant lenght is not important."So basically you can start the configuration by setting the consonat lenght and the Cuttoff with fixed values then fix the rest as needed so that it looks something like this:

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When mianaito helped me configure Camila's VCV he started with the consonant as 420 and the cuttoff as -700. You can use SetParam (which comes with OREMO) to edit those in bulk.

This is a program that comes with the OREMO download (so the translation works as well :D) It is used to edit the oto.ini file. You can write the numbers directly on the list that appears but you can also edit it visually like with utau. However to do that you need to know a few keyboard commands:

Unfortunately I'm limited to only knowing English and Spanish so I can't translate in any other language. But if anyone knows and can translate please do so and let me know so I can add it here. Also it might help if people commented which language they need to be able to understand the tutorial. I translated it to Spanish because I have a lot of friends who have UTAUloids and speak Spanish but their English isn't very good so if you know of any other languages please let it be known and help with the translation!

@Chris you can download the short list from here: http://www.4shared.com/document/JNsNhzrm/Short_VCV_List.html I apologize if there are any errors, I'm still trying to look for the most updated list I had but I can't find it on my computer so that will have to do.

I've been reading over your tutorial and "How to create your own "Utau" voice bank" one Nami gave me, but I can't even seem to get the Utau file. Nami gave me the download, and I did download it from your links too just in case, but all I get are a bunch of notepad documents...Maybe this is far to over my head? I really wanna make an Utau.

@Birchy What do you mean by UTAU file? Do you mean a ust? Or just the program. The links I have in this tutorial are just reclists so they are meant to be notepad files (although most weren't working but I fixed that now).

@Birchy the notepad documents must be the recording lists. You can use them with oremo (you'll have to look for a tutorial on that on youtube) or just record each syllable separately with audacity or some other recording program. This tutorial is for making the oto.ini after you've done the recording.

@Zen Kurosaki Basically yes. If you see any text in green it should be a link :)

@Vocaloid x UTAU Thank you :)

Anyways sorry to all for the late reply. I sometimes forget to check the comments...*sigh* Should go and turn on the alerts lol. You can always message me on youtube as well!

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Please refrain from using them in anything offensive, vulgar or distasteful.
You are free to use or draw them as you please, with the above rule in effect and as long as it is legal in the United States and the published area.

You are NOT, under ANY circumstances, allowed to take these voicebank and modify/alter the samples or claim them as your own. If you want to make a fanmade based on my UTAU be sure TO ASK ME FIRST. Editing the oto.ini is allowed as long as it is to improve the voicebank quality.

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Also if possible,but not required, let me know if you have drawn or made them sing. You can reach me with the contact information below.

1. Camila Melodía

She is a 20 year old UTAU character, for the song synthetizer UTAU, that is able to sing in Japanese, English and Spanish. She is cool, calm and collected and offers her advice whenever possible.
You can see a full picture of her here.
Note: Camila is a cyber fairy 8D

Camilo Adagio (g+15)
First Name: Camilo
Last Name: Adagio
He is Camila's cousin of the same age, same hair and eye color. His birthday is June 3 and he's 5'7"(170cm) tall. To get his voice the gender factor is g+15. You can see a picture of him here. He is half wizard half fairy xD.

2. Marc Adagio

First Name: Marc
Last Name: Adagio
He is Camilo's 15 year old cousin. His birthday is February 8 and he's 5'1"(~155cm). He is not related to Camila though she thinks of him as her cousin too. He has an obsession with cats, also he is a full wizard looking for a familiar xD. You can see his full picture here

3. Sofi

Name: Sofi
She is a robotic pixie, friend to Camila, Camilo and Marc. She is usually inches tall but she can change into normal human stature at will. You can see her picture here